I tried logging into quora using python. But it gives me the following error.
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error
This is my code till now. I also work behind a proxy.
import urllib2
import urllib
import re
import cookielib
class Quora:
def __init__(self):
'''Initialising and authentication'''
auth = 'http://name:password@proxy:port'
cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
logindata = urllib.urlencode({'email' : 'email' , 'password' : 'password'})
handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http' : auth})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler , urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
a = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.quora.com/' , logindata)
def main():
Quora()
Can someone please point out what is wrong?
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Try something like this:
# Load proxies
proxies = []
proxies_fp = open('proxies.txt', 'r') # A list of proxies
for proxy in proxies_fp:
proxies.append(proxy)
cookiejar = cookielib.CookieJar()
def perform_request(url, opener, credientials):
# Instantiate our request object
request = urllib2.Request(url)
# Perform the request, returning a pointer to the result set.
result = opener.urlopen(request, credentials)
return result
credentials ={
'username' : 'username',
'password' : 'password'
}
encoded_credentials = urllib.urlencode(credentials)
def main():
# Get random proxy
proxy = random.choice(proxies)
# Install our proxy
opener = urllib2.build_opener(
urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': proxy}),
urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler(),
urllib2.HTTPHandler(debuglevel=0),
urllib2.HTTPSHandler(debuglevel=0),
urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookiejar),
)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
a = perform_request(url, opener, encoded_credentials)
--untested--
I've had to do something similar to this, and it worked for me this way. (Please note, that this is NOT an exact copy of code I used. I had to manipulate it a bit, and did NOT test)